Principal Pharmacist

As a Principal Pharmacist, your responsibilities will vary. You will

• Provide leadership and support to the dedicated pharmacy team and the wider healthcare team around all aspects of safe use and handling of medicines within the secure environment.
• Ensure that there is good partnership working between teams to ensure that safe and effective patient centred care is at the core of what we do and in line with our wellbeing approach.
• Demonstrate high degrees of professional judgement across the role which will encompass both a leadership and clinical aspect.
• Continually develop your professional knowledge and skills and be expected to facilitate your own prescribing clinics within your sphere of competence.
• Understand cost effective prescribing practices and ensure these are implemented across the team of prescribers and empower the pharmacy team to challenge inappropriate prescribing.
  

If you are interested in career development, we have a wide range of opportunities for you to develop your skills and experience, which include both internal and external options for development and learning.

It doesn’t stop there… we also offer:

• Discounts on shopping and leisure activities
• Support to grow in your role and continue your professional development
• 24/7 employee assistance helpline and financial assistance when you need it

The Health in Justice team at Practice Plus Group makes a real difference across over 53 prisons, young offenders and immigration removal centres. We’re the UK’s leading independent provider of NHS services to over 40,000 patients in secure environments, always putting their needs first, regardless of their background.

Practice Plus Group’s purpose is to Unlock your best work life and we stand by our core values:

• we treat patients and each other as we would like to be treated
• we act with integrity
• we embrace diversity
• we strive to do things better together

We are looking for caring, compassionate but also driven professionals who can help us drive our vision for a fair and inclusive healthcare access to all.

Requirements

• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Vocational Master’s Degree in Pharmacy including pre-registration training
• Non-medical Prescribing qualification
• Relevant post qualifications
• Excellent communication skills
• Leadership experience
• Experience developing effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Non-judgemental and compassionate approach
• Ideal applicants will also have a prescriber qualification